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The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

Eric Voegelin

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Eric Voegelin

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

Eric Voegelin

Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

Eric Voegelin

The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.

Eric Voegelin

Eric Voegelin

Eric Voegelin

Born: January 3, 1901

Died: January 19, 1985 (aged 84)

Bio: Eric Voegelin was a German-born American political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna, at which he became an associate professor of political science at the Faculty of Law.

Known for:

New science of politics (1952)
Science, politics, and gnosticism (1968)
The collected works of Eric Voegelin
Hitler and the Germans
Published Essays

Eric Voegelin on Wikipedia

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